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Framing Services, Capabilities, and Well-Being: Adopting the Choice Framework in Transformative Service Research
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Service Research Center (from 2013). Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Karlstad Business School (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9756-902x
2025 (English)Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This thesis explores how services shape human capabilities and well-being by integrating the Choice Framework (Kleine, 2013) into Transformative Service Research (TSR). While TSR promotes the capability approach as a means to assess how services influence well-being, it often lacks practical analytical tools. To address this gap, this thesis adopts and adapts the Choice Framework as a structured method for analyzing how services influence individual agency and structural conditions, ultimately enabling or constraining people’s capabilities. Drawing on two empirical studies - one focusing on hedonic well-being in the digital transformation of the Swedish music market (hedonic well-being) and the other on eudaimonic well-being through free educational services for marginalized children in Pakistan (eudaimonic well-being) - this research demonstrates how service characteristics interact with contextual conditions to influence varying degrees of empowerment. The thesis employs a qualitative research design, using semi-structured interviews in both studies, complemented by ethnographic observations in the second. The findings contribute to both theory and practice by offering a capability-oriented analytical framework for TSR and providing nuanced insights into how service characteristics such as accessibility, affordability, flexibility, and mentorship influence well-being. In doing so, the thesis proposes a rigorous yet adaptable model for evaluating how services operate as mechanisms for transformative value, offering guidance for both scholars and practitioners in designing inclusive and empowering services.

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Karlstads universitet, 2025. , p. 73
Series
Karlstad University Studies, ISSN 1403-8099 ; 2025:27
Keywords [en]
Transformative Service Research; Capability Approach; Choice Framework; Well-Being; Human Capabilities; Service Characteristics; Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being; Empowerment; Digitalization; Music Services; Educational Services
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Business Administration
Research subject
Business Administration
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-104536DOI: 10.59217/ygkp6630ISBN: 978-91-7867-590-6 (print)ISBN: 978-91-7867-591-3 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-104536DiVA, id: diva2:1961676
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2025-08-22, 11C269, 13:00 (English)
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Available from: 2025-06-30 Created: 2025-05-27 Last updated: 2026-02-12Bibliographically approved
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1. How Has Digitalisation Influenced Value in the Music Market?
Open this publication in new window or tab >>How Has Digitalisation Influenced Value in the Music Market?
2021 (English)In: International Journal of Music Business Research, E-ISSN 2227-5789, Vol. 10, no 2, p. 53-63Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper focuses on how digitalisation has influenced actors’ value determination and value creation in the Swedish music market. It draws on the service-dominant logic (SDL) and the service ecosystem perspective to conceptualise value as co-created through the integration of resources by multiple actors in service exchange, enabled and constrained by institutions and institutional arrangements. Empirically, we draw on a qualitative study of the digitalisation of the Swedish music market that consists of fifty-two interviews with various actors. The findings suggest that digitalisation has influenced service engagement and consequently value creation and determination for various actors, and especially for consumers and producers. This paper contributes by integrating SDL and the service ecosystem perspective into music business research in a novel way to promote a deeper understanding of value, value determination, and value co-creation. This paper also contributes to SDL by suggesting that both value-in-exchange and value-in-use are important aspects of value determination and value co-creation.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sciendo, 2021
Keywords
digitalisation, music market, service-dominant logic, service ecosystem, value co-creation, value determination
National Category
Business Administration
Research subject
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-98988 (URN)10.2478/ijmbr-2021-0007 (DOI)
Available from: 2024-03-22 Created: 2024-03-22 Last updated: 2026-02-12Bibliographically approved
2. Education and Illiteracy: The Case of Street-children in Urban Areas of Pakistan
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Education and Illiteracy: The Case of Street-children in Urban Areas of Pakistan
(English)Manuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
National Category
Educational Sciences
Research subject
Business Administration
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urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-104534 (URN)
Available from: 2025-05-27 Created: 2025-05-27 Last updated: 2026-02-12Bibliographically approved

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